2007 ColDay Series:

 

Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno

Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos 

Part 3: Boston 

Part 4: A New York City Interlude 

Part 5: Montreal 

Part 6: Cincinnati 

Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg 

Part 8: Philadelphia 

Part 9: Brooklyn, New York 

Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC 

Part 11: Dayton

Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz

Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco

Part 14: San Francisco

Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland

Part 16: Around The Globe Preview

Part 17: London I

Part 18: London II

Part 19: Paris Partie Une

Part 20: Paris Partie Deux

Part 21: Paris Partie Trois

Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh

Part 23: Gritcinnati

Part 24: Toronto

Part 25: Akron & Cleveland

Part 26: New York City: Part One

Part 27: New York City: Part Two

Part 28: New York City: Part Three

Part 29: Hartford

Part 30: Zürich

Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps

Part 32: Milan

Part 33: Dallas

Part 34: Detroit

Part 35: Gary

Part 36: Chicago

 

 

Milan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye, from Milan

 

Outstanding!

wonderful!

To be honest, when I was in Milan a few years back I was thoroughly unimpressed.  Maybe I just didn't find the right parts, or maybe it was travel fatigue on my part.  Your pictures here are making me reevaluate my image of the city.  It looks wonderful.

Where's the surface lot with all the inflatables, streamers, and what not?!!?

^ Yeah, after seeing that I thought.  Damn, are we tacky

 

Awesome photos Chris

Thanks funny, I just got back from here last night (I was staying up in an apartment on the shores of Lake Como). On the face of it this is a very attractive city. The cathedral in the central part is the best I have seen with amazing detailing. Some might say its overdecorated but the amount of statues on the flying buttresses and the tower is staggering. The area around the cathedral is very impressive, with baroque façades and triumphal arch motifs a plenty. I didn't see much medieval stuff which leads me to suspect that it was all pulled down and replaced with Parisian style boulevards around the time of Baron Hausmann The main station was also impressive, looks like it was built in the 1930s and it has some great art deco features. You can also see in the photos that the old trams are still running.

 

Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can. The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.     

Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can.  The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.

 

If you hadn't used the words "loo", "ghastly" and "prowess", I'd have thought from this statement that you were living in suburban Cincinnati and not London.

 

Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can.  The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.

 

If you hadn't used the words "loo", "ghastly" and "prowess", I'd have thought from this statement that you were living in suburban Cincinnati and not London.

 

 

Lol. Don't get me wrong, I live in an inner suburb of London which is quite gritty and is only a few neighbourhoods along from Camden and Kings Cross which is grit central, so I would consider myself an urbanite.

 

Rightly or wrongly, my impression of the city was that outside the confines of the baroque centre the majority of neighbourhoods are quite ugly but also fairly homogeneous. In fairness, the same is true of a lot of European cities.  Vast estates of concrete tower blocks, characterless suburban sprawl and large areas of low rise industrial estates. The countryside there is as flat as a pancake which doesn't help. Of course, I may just have been in a bad mood. 

Damn Milan looks gorgeous.  Outstanding photos too!

well in that case thank goodness cdm found all the interesting cool-azz parts of town.  this thread makes me want to get a plane ticket right now.

 

 

I think we have US and British bombs for the way much of the city looks today.  It ain't so pretty, but sure is cool.

I think I enjoyed the Zurich thread a lot more, but this one was pretty nice.

 

Good Lord, what a fantastic street wall:

CDM's Euro-Invasion Tour 2007 continues.  I'd say "nice photos", but that goes without saying at this point.